Some advice on how to cope in these tough times, by eight great thinkers.


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Well, the big films of the summer can't all be winners.

Removing a mystery, too much going on, spare characters... Looked great, naturally.

Trailers: The Pact, the questionable-taste idea of restaging The Hills Have Eyes in Chernobyl, but never mind that, JAWS!

Well, I had a free ticket.

... Oh, alright. It looked nice. And there were some funny things in it. It's just that all but about two of them were in the trailer.

(Which is an improvement for the writer, whose books have all their jokes in the title.)

Attack The Block by Joe Cornish. Hopefully this trailer will be up in front of Battle: LA next week.

A visit to The House Of Del Toro.

A 12,000 word interview. Wowsers.

Alien 0 becomes Prometheus, an unconnected movie with a new setting while Ridley Scott's still working at it. So a new creepy SF setting by Ridley Scott where we don't know the rules? I think I'll be going to see that.

Having fought my way up to the bus stop and found a loaf of bread in a shop, I rewarded myself by going to see Monsters, advertised as Cloverfield Meets District Nine but more like Spielberg's War Of The Worlds meets Before Sunrise. Cleverly made both on location and with the DIY CGI, quietly touching and lifelike, an SF anecdote rather than a ( Read more... )

Buffy-scale Jason And The Argonauts skeleton warrior action figures.

Why has this taken so long to happen?

Joss Whedon declared that yes he is doing The Avengers (the Marvel ones, not the ITV ones) and when it came up he had to put off a web series with Warren Ellis. Ellis added "I'll wait then."

He's generally happy with Red. Which is nice. And Helen Mirren's Harvey Pekar longsleeve.

Karl Urban offered Judge Dredd which could be cool as, unlike the ( Read more... )

So this afternoon I hurried to the cinema to see the third instalment of a series about humanity's troubles with sparkling fanged yellow-eyed superhumans that shun the light of day.

Yes, I went to see PredatorsSome surprises, generally solid, action I could follow and see clearly, the score pretty much a remix of the original, more acting than ( Read more... )